The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2 [electronic resource] : Experiencing Imperialism /
Guégan, Xavier.author.
Farr, M.editor.
Guegan, X.editor.
This is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from international scholars concerned with examining the British experience of Empire since the eighteenth century. It considers themes such as national identity, modernity, culture, social class, diplomacy, consumerism, gender, postcolonialism, and perceptions of Britain's place in the world.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Series Preface; Preface and Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Establishing the Empire; 1 The Roots of Empire: Early Modern Travel Collections and International Politics in the Long Eighteenth Century; 2 Divine Imperialism: The British in Palestine, 1753-1842; 3 Model City: Fact and Fiction in Early Twentieth-Century Khartoum; Part II: Experiencing the Empire; 4 A Governor's Wife in the Making: Elizabeth Macquarie's Voyage from England to Australia in 1809
5 Against 'the Usual Restraints Imposed upon their Sex': Conflictive Gender Representations in Nineteenth-Century Orients6 Empire Travel Guides and the Imperial Mind-set from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries; Part III: Experiencing Other Empires; 7 'The Feelings of an Officer': John Stedman in Suriname; 8 British Communities and Foreign Intervention in Nineteenth-Century South America: The Rio de la Plata in the 1840s; 9 'The Bible Dream': Official Travel in Morocco, c. 1845-1935; Part IV: Experiencing a Post-colonial World
10 Oriental Expressions: British Visions of Arabia from a Colonial to a Post-colonial World11 Ghost Hunting: Amateur Film and Travel at the End of Empire; 12 'In Countries so Unciviliz'd as Those?': The Language of Incivility and the British Experience of the World; Index
Includes index.
This is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from international scholars concerned with examining the British experience of Empire since the eighteenth century. It considers themes such as national identity, modernity, culture, social class, diplomacy, consumerism, gender, postcolonialism, and perceptions of Britain's place in the world.
Great Britain-History.
Imperialism.
Social history.
Europe-History.
Civilization-History.
History, Modern.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Social History.
European History.
Cultural History.
Modern History.